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Elastic Compute Service:Group Policy opening errors caused by group policy file configuration exceptions

Last Updated:Dec 07, 2023

Problem description

Prompt "group policy error" when opening group policy.

Group Policy error: failed to open the group policy object on this computer. You may not have the appropriate permissions.

Cause

Failed to open Group Policy object normally due to group policy file configuration exception.

Solution

You can turn on the option to show hidden files in Windows, and go to the c:\\ Windows \system32 \grouppolicy\ machine folder. In the folder, you can see the registry.pol file and rename it. Create a notepad file, rename it to registry.pol, and enable group policy.